Johnny Au
Senior Member
What do you think of Hopstop.com having a trip planner for Toronto? Hopstop.com has long been used as a trip planner in many American cities, recently releasing Toronto and Montreal.
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Hopstop.com now includes Toronto
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Electrify
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I've never heard of Hopstop, but I checked it out and wasn't too impressed. It doesn't do anything that Google Maps already does much better.
Personally I use a combination of Google Maps and the official TTC one. Sometimes Google's directions leave much to be desired, and sometimes it uses GO or other systems which I do not want. Both are great though.
Personally I use a combination of Google Maps and the official TTC one. Sometimes Google's directions leave much to be desired, and sometimes it uses GO or other systems which I do not want. Both are great though.
jaycola
Active Member
My wife and I both drives to work. The above is the reason why...
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nfitz
Superstar
Looks pretty poor to me.
First I entered postal codes. It doesn't handle them.
Only gave one option straight away.
Doesn't allow time increments in less than 30 minutes.
Very odd. I tried to go from Main/Danforth to Exhibition at 8:30 PM. And it correctly put me on an 8:27 pm GO train ... and then had me get off at Union and take a 509 Streetcar to Strachan. Then it had me change to a 511 to get to Exhibition Loop. 1 hour 31 minutes instead of the 33 minutes that Google takes (22 minutes if you could convince it not to spend 5 minutes walking to and from the station).
It's a really, really, ugly interface.
Why would anyone ever use this over Google Maps for transit?
First I entered postal codes. It doesn't handle them.
Only gave one option straight away.
Doesn't allow time increments in less than 30 minutes.
Very odd. I tried to go from Main/Danforth to Exhibition at 8:30 PM. And it correctly put me on an 8:27 pm GO train ... and then had me get off at Union and take a 509 Streetcar to Strachan. Then it had me change to a 511 to get to Exhibition Loop. 1 hour 31 minutes instead of the 33 minutes that Google takes (22 minutes if you could convince it not to spend 5 minutes walking to and from the station).
It's a really, really, ugly interface.
Why would anyone ever use this over Google Maps for transit?
Jonny5
Senior Member
I use the TTC paper map. It shows me the route faster than any website.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
The poll so far shows that hopstop.com is not made for Torontonians, despite having a Toronto trip planner. New Yorkers visiting Toronto might use hopstop.com.
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Electrify
Senior Member
More likely they'll use Google.
If it makes us feel any better, London, England isn't on board with Google Maps, with the exception of a transit map overlay. However, the trip planner on the Transport for London website is VERY competitive with anything Google can do.